Now, if me.. a brown muslim guy, were to go the the American heartland and crack similar jokes at peter's expense. I would eventually run into a christian red neck would think I deserve a punch.
We used to have a lot more people like that in the west but we got rid of most of them by slapping their stupid religion down wherever possible. The USA was in the lead on this issue with their novel idea of separation between church and state.
The annoying thing is that once we ground the edges of our own Christian nutcases (yes I know, never quite fixed the sex abuse problem) a whole other bunch of religious nutjobs came along. It would be nice if we could just point them in the direction of the last mob (be like the christians) but they seem to think they are different for some reason.
its not the same situation. The soviets could not have bought vaxen if they had wanted to. It certainly would have been cheaper for them to do so, but the technology was embargoed.
I remember a story that the apollo crew who linked up with a soyuz in the early 70's were surprised to find a mechanical sequencer (a cylinder with pins attached) running the show on the soviet side.
still would prefer soldiers to get this kind of cultural briefing in a less synthetical environment
Especilly since software is usually either pathetically easy to manipulate or totally impossible to deal with. It doesn't have enough intelligence to act like a real human being.
It is hard to see how this software can help anybody interact with any real person.
domesic violence 5 times per week to the same house.
I used to live next to a house like that. The biggest problem was that the police who attended had no information about previous calls to the house. Something like bugzilla would have helped then do their job but I suspect would not have helped with their funding.
If they make 10 calls to a house which has a problem they can go to the state government at the end of the year and say "we have attended 50000 jobs per month this year and we need this much money."
If the police on the spot had to actually solve crimes the way programmers fix bugs each job would take longer to process, cost more, and ultimately cost revenue.
Actually solving crimes doesn't help you pay the bills.
They can put a camera in my house but if the "camera location" becomes a very small cupboard then thats just too bad...
In my first job out of college (with the local road authority) I heard a story about a (long realigned) traffic camera outside the nurses quarters at a major hospital. That camera was a legend.
BTW I passed your sig on to a Filipino friend of mine. It looks like his kind of movie.
the main reason that users stay with RSX is for 'features that RSTS and RT-11 don't have yet.
I remember when the alpha chip came out there were a bunch of old DEC guys who were going to rewrite RSTS to run on the alpha. They thought you would get much better performance out of it without all that multitasking stuff.
Personally I only used RSTS for running dztest. I can think of better things to be doing at 2am than calculating interrupt vectors in octal and fiddling with loopback plugs.
It had an amazingly fast boot time even compared to DOS
Maybe it booted fast but if you attach it to a token ring LAN and install applications from the network at boot time you could switch it on, get a coffee, have a chat with co-workers, return to your desk and still be waiting for the bloody thing to be ready.
One of the users showed me a folder with 100 icons in it all at the same (x,y) coordinates. There was no way to organise them. He had to delete them one at a time.
OS/2 had good internals but it also had a small number of killer quirks which pissed the users off to no end. The default colors for the desktop were just depreessing. If you had only evey used windows 3.1 (rather than a mac) you would never be able to guess how to change them. Everything took too long to start and run. They was much crossing of fingers when using it for real work. It didn't help that it was coupled to lotus notes and a couple of really shitty internal applications.
Eventually the company went to windows 98 for everything. Then people had a new thing to hate with a vengance.
Let me remind folks that it was just this month that the Australian PM wanted to ban a New Zealand athlete from the Commonwealth Games because he had committed manslaughter
I didn't hear about that, but I suspect part of the issue would be about giving him a visa, not participation in the games.
We need to be carefull. His media manager's assistants are going to have to print out 50 pages of/. on friday morning. Phil is not going to be a happy chap after spending friday reading at -1.
Better carry my passport around for a while, just in case.
but a game can't be rated 18+, so any 16yo would be able to get his hands on any game without parental consent.
I don't think there is that much of a difference between 16 and 18. Kids who are going to be influenced by a game to go out and spray paint stuff would have to be much younger than 16.
the game features a world where freedom of expression is suppressed by a tyrannical city government.
I've got an idea for a character in the next version of the game.
But seriously, most of the games out there promote violence, road rage, all kinds of stuff, and they can still be sold. What makes graffiti so important?
Power-to-weight ratio is excellent. Minimal moving parts, no valve train and short eccentric shafts mean that vibration is very low, and this enables rotaries to rev very smoothly and at relatively high RPM (10,000+ RPM on a normally aspirated rotary in street trim is not difficult). Hot, high velocity exhausts make turbocharged rotaries capable of very high power levels.
A relative of mine flies glider tug aircraft in his spare time. The club which operates the aircraft spend a huge amount of money on engines and engine parts. The problem is thermal cycling. The tug goes flat out to the release altitude (in cold air) then virtually shuts the engine down and it cools too fast. Based on other parts of your post I imagine this would be worse for the rotary, but I wonder how an air cooled version would go.
Many people trash the rotary out of ignorance, but the truth is that it is the one and only fundamental change in production engine design we have seen in the last 100 years.
If you can find it you might want to check out The Striker Portfolio. Its a spy novel set and written in the 1960's. The hero rents an NSU, mainly because he has the budget for it and has never driven a rotary. He gets into a a comparison of the relative merits of rotary and piston engines as they relate to flat out car chases on german autobahns.
My bet is that they are buying these companies to destroy them
Its funny: I just got this from theonion.com:
Fatal error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query query: SELECT name, filename, throttle, bootstrap FROM system WHERE type = 'module' AND status = 1 AND bootstrap = 1 in/www/redesign.theonion.com/content/includes/databa se.mysql.inc on line 66
Then I'd do Count Zero, Neuromancer, and Mona Lisa Overdrive
I never really got CZ and MLO. Both had some good bits but the whole didn't work for me, but Virtual Light would have been fantastic. I heard that the Oakland bay bridge is going to be pulled down so the had better hurry up and make the movie.
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We used to have a lot more people like that in the west but we got rid of most of them by slapping their stupid religion down wherever possible. The USA was in the lead on this issue with their novel idea of separation between church and state.
The annoying thing is that once we ground the edges of our own Christian nutcases (yes I know, never quite fixed the sex abuse problem) a whole other bunch of religious nutjobs came along. It would be nice if we could just point them in the direction of the last mob (be like the christians) but they seem to think they are different for some reason.
its not the same situation. The soviets could not have bought vaxen if they had wanted to. It certainly would have been cheaper for them to do so, but the technology was embargoed.
I remember a story that the apollo crew who linked up with a soyuz in the early 70's were surprised to find a mechanical sequencer (a cylinder with pins attached) running the show on the soviet side.
Forget suborbital flights. I would be willing to help pay to boost him to escape velocity.
Especilly since software is usually either pathetically easy to manipulate or totally impossible to deal with. It doesn't have enough intelligence to act like a real human being.
It is hard to see how this software can help anybody interact with any real person.
With Beatles lyrics his only remaining asset, and deeply in debt, MJ releases a triple CD of Beatles covers.
I can't wait.
Then you could take bets on whether they were going to renew. I like your idea, for the entertainment value if nothing else.
I used to live next to a house like that. The biggest problem was that the police who attended had no information about previous calls to the house. Something like bugzilla would have helped then do their job but I suspect would not have helped with their funding.
If they make 10 calls to a house which has a problem they can go to the state government at the end of the year and say "we have attended 50000 jobs per month this year and we need this much money."
If the police on the spot had to actually solve crimes the way programmers fix bugs each job would take longer to process, cost more, and ultimately cost revenue.
Actually solving crimes doesn't help you pay the bills.
They can put a camera in my house but if the "camera location" becomes a very small cupboard then thats just too bad...
In my first job out of college (with the local road authority) I heard a story about a (long realigned) traffic camera outside the nurses quarters at a major hospital. That camera was a legend.
BTW I passed your sig on to a Filipino friend of mine. It looks like his kind of movie.
And token ring just wouldn't scale to large distributed networks. This was an absolute killer at our site. It gave OS/2 such a bad reputation.
I always thought of that as a cheesy Bryan Brown movie.
I remember when the alpha chip came out there were a bunch of old DEC guys who were going to rewrite RSTS to run on the alpha. They thought you would get much better performance out of it without all that multitasking stuff.
Personally I only used RSTS for running dztest. I can think of better things to be doing at 2am than calculating interrupt vectors in octal and fiddling with loopback plugs.
Maybe it booted fast but if you attach it to a token ring LAN and install applications from the network at boot time you could switch it on, get a coffee, have a chat with co-workers, return to your desk and still be waiting for the bloody thing to be ready.
One of the users showed me a folder with 100 icons in it all at the same (x,y) coordinates. There was no way to organise them. He had to delete them one at a time.
OS/2 had good internals but it also had a small number of killer quirks which pissed the users off to no end. The default colors for the desktop were just depreessing. If you had only evey used windows 3.1 (rather than a mac) you would never be able to guess how to change them. Everything took too long to start and run. They was much crossing of fingers when using it for real work. It didn't help that it was coupled to lotus notes and a couple of really shitty internal applications.
Eventually the company went to windows 98 for everything. Then people had a new thing to hate with a vengance.
I didn't hear about that, but I suspect part of the issue would be about giving him a visa, not participation in the games.
How do they know the content is there? They don't play them (obviously).
Perhaps the games are built with a "censor" interface. Or perhaps the censors rely on the documentation.
The Attorney-General mentioned in the article has been involved in deporting and detaining sick Australian citizens and he still has his job.
I wonder if anybody figured out what MAX+GJE was all about?
We need to be carefull. His media manager's assistants are going to have to print out 50 pages of /. on friday morning. Phil is not going to be a happy chap after spending friday reading at -1.
Better carry my passport around for a while, just in case.
I don't think there is that much of a difference between 16 and 18. Kids who are going to be influenced by a game to go out and spray paint stuff would have to be much younger than 16.
I've got an idea for a character in the next version of the game.
But seriously, most of the games out there promote violence, road rage, all kinds of stuff, and they can still be sold. What makes graffiti so important?
A relative of mine flies glider tug aircraft in his spare time. The club which operates the aircraft spend a huge amount of money on engines and engine parts. The problem is thermal cycling. The tug goes flat out to the release altitude (in cold air) then virtually shuts the engine down and it cools too fast. Based on other parts of your post I imagine this would be worse for the rotary, but I wonder how an air cooled version would go.
Many people trash the rotary out of ignorance, but the truth is that it is the one and only fundamental change in production engine design we have seen in the last 100 years.If you can find it you might want to check out The Striker Portfolio. Its a spy novel set and written in the 1960's. The hero rents an NSU, mainly because he has the budget for it and has never driven a rotary. He gets into a a comparison of the relative merits of rotary and piston engines as they relate to flat out car chases on german autobahns.
Its funny: I just got this from theonion.com:
Fatal error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query query: SELECT name, filename, throttle, bootstrap FROM system WHERE type = 'module' AND status = 1 AND bootstrap = 1 inI remember when Oracle bought RDB from DEC in the 90's. The next version of RDB became Oracle at 10 times the price.
Oh god not OS/2 again. I couldn't stand it.
I never really got CZ and MLO. Both had some good bits but the whole didn't work for me, but Virtual Light would have been fantastic. I heard that the Oakland bay bridge is going to be pulled down so the had better hurry up and make the movie.
Try looking into ways of calculating coefficient of drag